alt Hacker News> The hierarchical file system is kind of a lowest common denominator.
Which, in the form of folder and file names, can be your the first layer of tags. But familiarity with file systems is going out of the window as well, I've been made aware.
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miek • last Wednesday at 7:16 PM
I have multuple friends who are college engineering professors, and they've been dumbfounded by the lack of basic file system knowledge. I had a hard time believing it, but ive seen it first hand in highschool age relatives.
I have some file names that are really long. If I can use 255 characters then why not name the files with lots of words so that I can use "find" or some other file index utility.
I found the article from 2022 about younger people not understanding them.
Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526